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This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. In the lead-up to the 2026 midterm elections, how is the U.S. government performing in terms of human rights? Listening to politicians, it ...

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation's Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice -- or ...

A few days ago I wrote about the anti-SLAPP motion filed by "Reckless" Ben Schneider against Bricks & Minifigs (BAM Franchising) over the ridiculous RICO suit they filed against him for his efforts to get BAM to pay back the money owed to Bryan ...

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Flock is in the middle of a long losing streak. It's one thing to lose hearts and minds via PR work. It's quite another to lose actual dollars because you've lost a ton of hearts and minds by being on the losing end of mainstream media coverage for ...

Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr endlessly pays empty lip service to the "public interest" and the "value of broadcasting integrity" as he engages in ham-fisted censorship of comedians and journalists the president doesn't like. Or the illegal dismantling ...

Among the many promises that RFK Jr. offered in his confirmation hearings, promises that he has gone about breaking in spectacular fashion, one was a promise of "radical transparency". His approach, in his own words, was laid out directly to Congress ...

The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the ...

Donald Trump has been claiming for years that all elections he hasn't (or won't) win are rigged. This also goes for mid-terms -- especially this one -- where Republicans seem likely to lose seats to Democratic Party members. We won't know if Trump ...

Every so often a piece of reporting is so thorough that I don't have much to add. So let me start with this: everyone should watch Mikhail Klimentov's comprehensive investigation, into how former Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick appears to have ...